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CIRCULAR. 


CONFEDERATE    STATES    OF    AMERICA, 

Subsistence  Department, 

Richmond,  January  5,  1864. 

When  there  is  no  meat  ration,  a  pound  of  sound  potatoes,  if  possessed, 
should  be  added  to  the  bread  ration.  If  neither  meat  nor  potatoes,  then 
three-fourths  of  a  pound  of  flour  or  meal  will  be  added  to  the  present 
ration  of  flour  or  meal.  When  both  meat  and  flour  or  meal  can*be  fur- 
nished, and  potatoes  are  likewise  possessed,  one  pound  of  potatoes  will 
be  substituted  for  one-fouvtli  of  a  pound  of  flour  or  meal. 

L.  B.  NORTHROP, 

Commissary  General. 

Approved  Jan.  5,  1864: 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 

Secretary  of  liar. 


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